Books Quote by Samantha Ellis

“She read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so soothing in…

— Jane Austen

“But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine; she read all such works as heroines must read to supply their…

— Jane Austen

“...novels do not begin the way you want them to, but the way they want to.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“...Don't insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery.”

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

“One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love.”

— Alain de Botton

“I read as many novels as you do. Maybe more. I'm just not sure I want to write one.”

— Lenore Appelhans

“...and no new difficulty arising, no sudden recollection, no unexpected summons, no impertinent intrusion to disconcert their measures, my heroine was most unnaturally able…

— Jane Austen

“Her self, then, was represented in her books.”

— Claire Messud

“For a moment I have the alarming thought that maybe I want heroines so I can be their best friend and loyal sidekick without…

— Samantha Ellis

“She read every author she could get her hands on who wrote a strong female protagonist who triumphed in the end.”

— Wendy Wax

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading.”

— Betty Smith

“It is possible for YA heroines to go an entire book without discussing their love lives.”

— Celine Kiernan